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Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud — Twitter may try to buy its way out of its growth problem by making another move into music. — The company is considering a deal to acquire SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing company, according to people familiar with both companies.
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Twitch chooses Google over Microsoft amid multiple buyout offers — Video game streaming startup believes YouTube is its best bet for mainstream success — YouTube is indeed close to securing a $1 billion buyout of live streaming service Twitch, and will have fended off multiple suitors including Microsoft …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion: Sources — Deal would be biggest ever for YouTube — Google's YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-streaming company, for more than $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the pact.
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| Washington Post: |
US Justice Department charges five members of Chinese military with conducting economic cyber-espionage against six American companies — Chinese military members charged with cyber-espionage against U.S. firms — The Justice Department on Monday charged members of the Chinese military … | Pete Williams / NBC News: |
FBI Director says Chinese govt blatantly uses cyber-espionage to obtain economic advantages — U.S. Charges China With Cyber-Spying on American Firms — The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against several Chinese government officials, accusing them of stealing American trade …
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Google Buys an Enterprise Android Company, Divide (Formerly Known as Enterproid) — Google is buying a startup that focuses on Android in the enterprise and was backed by its Google Ventures investing group. — Needless to say, it's an alignment of interests. — The company is Divide, formerly known as Enterproid.
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NSA records every cell phone call in the Bahamas and one unnamed country, gathers call metadata in Mexico, the Philippines, and Kenya — Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas — The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Angela Ahrendts' plan for the future of Apple Retail: China emphasis, mobile payments, revamped experience — When Ron Johnson finalized his decision to move from leading Apple's retail strategy to become the Chief Executive Officer of J.C. Penney, the executive jumped in his car to drive …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Groupon to Replace Nearly All of Its Merchants' Cash Registers With iPads — Groupon has long said it wants to be known as more than a deals company. Now it's showing how. — Today, the company is introducing an iPad-based checkout system that it expects tens of thousands of businesses that run a Groupon promotion to use.
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| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Intel CEO promises Broadwell PCs on shelves for holidays — (Reuters) - Intel Corp's next-generation Broadwell processors will ship in time to be used in personal computers sold during the holiday season but probably won't be available for back-to-school shopping, Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said.
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| Cindy Boren / Washington Post: |
AT&T-DirecTV deal hinges on NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’ package renewal — Over the weekend, AT&T made waves with its $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, a move that raises a number of questions for NFL fans who want to know just what will happen with their beloved “Sunday Ticket.”| AT&T: |
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
IndoorAtlas publicly maps a building's interior for free, charges $99/month to keep it private — Mapping Our Interiors — Sure, that's your office cubicle. Your corner store. Maybe even the layout of your furniture in your living room. But that doesn't mean that soon we won't all be peering at it, too.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Biometrics pioneer cautions against unfettered proliferation of face recognition technology — Never Forgetting a Face — Joseph J. Atick cased the floor of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington as if he owned the place. In a way, he did.| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung planning to bring biometric authentication to lower-end smartphones — Samsung Looks to Expand Biometric Sensors in Mobile Devices — Samsung Electronics is working to use biometric sensors in its mobile security system which the company expects to be available even for low-end smartphone models, an executive said Monday.Sponsor Posts
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